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'UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOB T. WILLIAMS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5S, i60. dated September 18, 1866..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOB T. WILLIAMS, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rocking Toys; and l dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referenee being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in Whioh` Figure lis a side View of arocking toy in an unnished state. Fig. 2 is an edge view Of t-he same when nished.

Like letters in both the figures indicate the same parts.

The nature of my invention and improvement Consists in making a rocking toy out otl a single piece of tin or other metal, substantially as follows I eut the piece to fAform a rocking toy of a circular or elliptical form, so that when bent on an angle at a line through its` center each half will forni a rocker for the toy. I then stamp the piece in dies to produce the form of the toy.

In Fig. ll a man and a horse are represented in rilievo. That portion of the plate is out through above the horizontal red 'line' a, b against the outlines of the gure, from the point l to the point 2. The upper portion of the plate outside of the gure is then bent backward until it is brought t0 a suitable angle with the lower part of the plate, so as the two edges, at their extreme parts, shall be at a suitable distance apart, as seen iniFig. 2, the two partso d formingroekers for the toy. rIhe upper portions ofthe figure above the said horizontalhline o b remain fast to the lower portion of the plate, so that the igures remain entire, as at the first, as seen in Fig. I.

If desired, the upper portions mayr then be bent Outward, so as `to come into a perpendicular position.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Pate-nt, is-

Constructing rocking toys out Of single pieces ot' tin or other metallic plates, substantially in the manner above described.

In testimony that the above is my invention I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 23d day of December, 1565.

JOB T. WILLIAMS. [L.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN UsTIoK, JOHN WHITE, JOHN B. SMITH. 

